Welcome back to Singapore
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and behind me you can see
this very impressive structure.
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It's the Marina Bay Sands
Expo and Exhibition Center.
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Next up, we traveled to Botswana
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to visit a
Global Mission pioneer.
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I'm here with Matheo,
Global Mission Pioneer.
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Matheo, tell us
where we are at the moment?
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We are in Botswana,
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in Ghanzi
district in a settlement,
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which is called Grootlaagte.
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And you're Global
Mission pioneer here.
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Tell us, what is it like
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to be a Global
Mission pioneer here
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in the settlement?
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Actually I
considered as a privilege,
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the Lord has given me
an opportunity to come
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and witness for Him.
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I'm talking to the
people that are considered
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one of the lowest people
in Africa and the Bushmen,
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but being a
Global Mission pioneer's
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a great thing to my life.
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What is your day like
being a Global Mission pioneer?
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Actually, in my day, in my week,
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I've divided my week
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with visitations to
the government offices,
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I'd go to the
court, to the clinic,
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to the primary school,
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into the [inaudible] shop
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that helps you put some food
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and pray with the
leaders that side,
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and then afterwards,
I'll go and have my breakfast,
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then after that
going house to house,
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check in some elderly
people in some in their homes,
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and pray with them.
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And sometimes it's hard,
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they don't even
hear what I'm saying,
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but the word of
prayer, they understand it.
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So we're here at your church,
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the church that you're pastor
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that you take care
of in this community.
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Tell us a little bit of
what you do in this church?
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In this church is a
lot actually, I'd say,
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I don't know if it's
the right way to use,
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I am the church.
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I am the church to mean that
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all of the
activities that are running
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are done in the
church actually do them.
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I think, the Lord
that has gifted me
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with the singing gift.
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So I teach them some songs.
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I chorus that and I
conduct Bible studies.
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And if I have an
opportunity to preach,
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I preach to them again.
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And I will collect offerings
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because there are
still not organized.
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I'm still bringing them back.
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So that will be
organized as a church
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and all the things that
I've done in the church,
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actually, I covered them
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I try and cover them
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so that there
wouldn't be anything
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that is not been
done in the church.
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I notice you
have a pathfinder law.
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Yes.
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Principles up on
your on the church.
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Do you have a
pathfinder group here?
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Yeah, I have
over 20 pathfinders.
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Wow, that's...
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Pathfinders, they've
been practicing around...
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Yeah, this year,
around February in January,
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they were preparing
to go to camp at Maun.
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Unfortunately,
they didn't managed
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because of the money,
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the church didn't have
much funds to help them,
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but we have pathfinders.
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They've lent their laws,
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the only thing they don't have
enough for now is the uniform,
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maybe that could encourage them
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to get into the
pathfinder thing,
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pathfinder club.
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And other than
that we want to do
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with our pathfinder this side,
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we've been talking
with our pathfinders,
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that we don't wanna our
pathfinder to be a club.
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We want it to be a mission
group of small young kids,
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so be able to reach to
others in their own languages
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because for kids this side
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is very easy for
them to invite others,
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they talk to each other say,
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"This church is very nice."
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And they come in large numbers.
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And that is the big
number of the church
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this side is small kids.
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Yes.
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Do you go out in
the community with them
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with the kids and talk to others
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especially because
they know their language?
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Yeah, I was
started visit to Sabbaths
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we went around the home
singing at them some songs,
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and we were seen
praying with the elderlies
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at the homes.
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They're not that
[inaudible] though.
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They're not that [inaudible].
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They're
learning. They're learning.
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And they're loving
the church, the kids.
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So we've been learning about
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what it is to be a
Global Mission pioneer
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here in the settlement.
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What brought you to be...
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What encouraged you to
be a Global Mission pioneer?
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Something came to my mind
when I go to Ghanzi district.
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I had left the
church at that time
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started drinking, moving around,
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and the Lord will talk to
me even when I was drinking.
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I felt someone
tipped me over asking,
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"What are you doing?
Hey, what are you doing?
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Stop doing that."
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And it just went out.
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My uncle pick me up from Maun,
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our home village and
brought me to Ghanzi.
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In Ghanzi, I started
working with young people
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from Ghanzi Senior
Secondary School around 09.
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Teaching them songs,
giving them Bible studies,
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they helped me grow up.
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And my pastor
was around that time
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Pastor Sebuka,
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he will take me around Ghanzi
to the government offices,
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we'll go together sing,
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I'll sing for him
some special songs.
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And sometimes I'll preach.
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He gave me a slot to preach.
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He encouraged me.
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He encouraged me a lot.
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And it really motivated me.
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And I wanted to become
a Global Mission pioneer.
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Before I became a
Global Mission pioneer
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he took me last year to Mmopane
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and one of the places
in Botswana called Mmopane
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around Gaborone
district that side,
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to go and prepare for
his crusade for a month.
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And when that said,
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and the Lord
blessed me with many souls
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who were trained
souls in the church
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came together and realized that
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I believe I've
been called to do this.
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Now this is
your second year now,
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you just started in second
year here in this community.
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How's it changed
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from when you
first got here to now?
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How has the church change?
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How have you and the
community looks at you now?
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Okay.
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When I first came here,
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people doubted
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because if we see a young boy
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and more
especially come to community
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we have people who were
pastors will be coming to serve
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were old men and grown-ups.
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People when they look
at you come in this side
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you're not
married the first thing,
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you're still a boy,
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no doubt the work in the
Lord has sustained me though,
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the Lord has sustained me
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because I buried them
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most of them they said
when their funerals are,
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not even Adventists
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most of the
time I'll attend them
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and try and
preach to the families
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and that has helped me a lot
to connect with the villagers.
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They now trust me
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more than they
never trusted me before
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because there's some issues
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that sometimes
they raise about me
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in the village.
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In most of the
parents they defend me.
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Not even me knowing that
someone is standing for me
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that no don't
talk about that boy,
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that's a good boy
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so that one really touched me.
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Yesterday I had
one of the ladies
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coming to me saying that.
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"I will stand for you in a court
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if something goes wrong
with you in this village."
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And it was really something
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that the Lord is fighting
for me with these people.
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There are those at
home also already prayed
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for Global Mission pioneers.
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Do you have a special message
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for those
already praying for you?
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I'd like to say thank
you, thank you very much.
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And when I hope that,
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and they know
and they believe that
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what they've been
praying for it is to succeed it
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and because I don't think
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we could make it
without Adventist
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or other
Christians praying for us.
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The more they pray for us,
the more we see those open.
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Sometimes we give up
or sit alone in my house
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say I don't give up now.
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And I'd watch, sometimes
they even Adventist Mission,
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I would see 3ABN and see,
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wow,
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maybe the Lord doesn't
want me to do it this way.
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He wants me to
do this other way.
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The right way.
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I don't waste my time,
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I get out of the house
and went try another thing.
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Then you learn a
new thing or try it.
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And it works,
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the prayers, they really work,
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but they are
praying for is working.
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Next up, we
traveled to Southern Asia
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to see children
involved in mission.
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Rishon and his family
were moving from the big city
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to a small house on a
mountainside in India.
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Rishon had many toys
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and his mom and dad
needed to talk with him
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about getting
rid of some of them.
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"You don't need
all those big toys,"
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his dad said.
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"You are going to be
very busy doing things
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other than playing with them."
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His mom talked about the
children living in the village
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near the new house.
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"The village children are poor
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and don't have
nice toys like you,"
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she said.
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"Why don't you give
them your big toys?"
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Rishon was an obedient boy
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and he didn't mind
giving away his big toys.
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He gave them to the
boys and girls in the village
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who were very
excited to receive the gifts.
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They had never owned
such nice toys before.
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Rishon was
happy to see their joy
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and it felt so good
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to do something kind for others.
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As the days passed,
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Rishon saw that his
mom and dad were right.
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He was very busy.
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He went to school at home
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with his mom
teaching him English, Hindi,
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and other languages,
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and his dad teaching
him math and science.
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When Rishon wasn't studying,
he worked in the family garden,
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planting, weeding,
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and harvesting corn,
potatoes, and other crops.
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Every day he memorized
three verses from the Bible.
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After a few months,
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he could recite
many chapters by memory,
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including Psalm
23 and Hebrews 11.
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Rishon didn't
have much time to play
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even with his small toys,
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so he also gave them
away to the village children.
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The children
especially the little ones
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quickly became Rishon's friends.
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At first they liked him
because he gave them toys,
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but then they got to know him
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and they saw that he
was a kind, gentle boy.
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They liked to
visit Rishon at his house
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on the mountainside.
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Rishon like to
play with the children.
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Sometimes they played
with Rishon's old toys,
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but most of the
time they played church.
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You see, the
children weren't Christians
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and their parents
weren't Christians.
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They didn't know anything
about God creating the world
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or Jesus dying
for people's sins.
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They didn't know
anything about praying to God.
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But by playing church,
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Rishon taught the
children about Jesus.
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They sat on the dusty ground
as Rishon told them stories
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about Adam and Eve,
Noah's Ark, David and Goliath,
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and Daniel in the lions' den.
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He told them about
Jesus dying on the cross
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to give eternal life to everyone
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who believes in Him.
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He invited them to pray to Jesus
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and showed them how.
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"Dear God,"
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he said.
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"Thank You for being
our very best friend.
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Please give us a
heart of love for You
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and for others.
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In Jesus' name, amen."
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The other children began
to copy Rishon's prayers,
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and they told their
parents about the Bible stories.
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Then some of the parents
even asked Rishon's parents
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to know more about Jesus.
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Now Rishon
doesn't have much time
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to play with his remaining toys.
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He is too busy being
a missionary for Jesus.
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Well, thank you so
much for joining us
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on today's program.
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And I hope that
you've been challenged
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by our 360-degree view
of mission around the world.
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We've traveled to Africa
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and visited Global
Mission pioneer working there
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and we have
thousands of pioneers
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working around the world today,
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often in many
difficult circumstances
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where they face
many different challenges
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and they are sustained
by your prayers and support.
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We also saw
children involved in mission
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and we praise God
for the wonderful things
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that are
happening around the world,
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but, of course, there
are so many challenges
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that still face us.
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I think there are cities
like right here in Singapore
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in the middle of
the 10/40 Window,
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I think the
growing number of people
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in the secular
and postmodern West.
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And I think the fact
that there are so many people
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who have never even
heard the name of Jesus.
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I wanna thank you so much
for your continuing support
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of the Adventist Mission
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with your
donations to Global Mission,
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your mission
offerings, your prayers,
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and your personal involvement.
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Well, for Adventist
Mission, I'm Gary Krause,
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and I hope you
can join me next time
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right here on Mission 360.
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